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smartmontools vs SpinRite

A side-by-side look at smartmontools and SpinRite. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

smartmontools

smartmontools

System & Hardware

smartmontools is a set of open source utilities that monitor the health of disk drives and predict drive failures, compatible with most types of hard drives. It reads SMART data to detect and report on various drive attributes related to reliability, such as reallocated sectors count.

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SpinRite

SpinRite

System & Hardware

SpinRite is a hard drive recovery and maintenance utility software developed by Steve Gibson. It is used to analyze hard drives for problems, recover data from failing drives, and improve the performance of older hard drives.

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